📜 This Day in History
June 30
- 1398Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne to the Ming dynasty to become the Jianwen Emperor.
- 1859French acrobat Charles Blondin crossed Niagara Gorge, making him one of the world's most famous tightrope walkers.
1934German chancellor Adolf Hitler began a purge of the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party and other political rivals, executing at least 85 people.- 1963The coronation of Pope Paul VI took place, the last such ceremony before its abandonment by later popes.
- 1985Ryan White, an HIV/AIDS patient in the US, was denied re-admission to his school after he had contracted the disease from hemophilia treatments.
- 2015An Indonesian Air Force military transport aircraft crashed near a residential neighborhood in Medan, killing 139 people.
